Improvement in dish-holders



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DISH-HOLDER.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Grrroa.

HENRY O. MILLIGAN, OF SOUTH ORANGE, N'EVV JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN DISH-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 190,352, dated May 1, 1877; application filed March 21. 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY O. MILLIGAN, a resident of South Orange, Essex county, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dish-Holders, to be used on the table, of which the following is a specification My invention consists of an improved construction of the ornamental attachment used in connection with baking dishes for puddings, &c., to hold them when set on the table, to protect it from the heat and dirt of the dish, and to make an ornamental and sightly exterior suitable for the table, said improved construction being so contrived'as to afford an article equal or superior to any heretofore made, and being at the same time cheaper, both in respect of the material and labor employed in making it, also simpler, and also more ready of connection and disconnection with the pan, all as hereinafter more particularly described, and as represented in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved d-ish-holder, and Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of the same.

A is a baking pan or dish of any approved construction,with a flange, B, turned outwardly from the top, or having other outward projections, or, it may be, sockets in the sides. 0 is the ring of the ornamental attachment for holding the pan on the table to conceal the unsightly appearance, and to protect the table from being smeared with the grime and dirt of the pan, also to "protect it from the heat of the pan, which it is desirable to set on the table hot.

This ring or frame,whicl1 will be constructed with a fine exterior finish of any kind, has a flange, D, turned inward from the top suitably to overlap the flange B of the pan A more or less, when the ring is set on the pan, and it has fastenings of any kind, saythe spring-catches E, suitably arranged on opposite sides, say at the handles F, to catch under flange B when the ring is set over the pan, and the latter raised up, or the former dropped down, so that the flange or projections of the pan pass above the catches, and thus hold the pan by the ring. The ring will, in practice, be considerably deeper than the pan, in order to hold it sufficiently above the table to make an air-space for preventing, to a considerable extent, the cooling of the pan. The pan may be set on a small object to raise it sufficiently to connect the ring readily.

The catches have little knob-handles G extending out through the ring for pulling them back readily from under the flange of the pan, for releasing it when the ring is to be detached from the pan.

The pan and the ring maybe round, oval,

' or any other approved form.

By making this article in the form of a ring without a bottom, a considerable amount of metal is saved, and it can be made cheaper than the pan-shaped attachment. Moreover,

it allows of inserting the baking-pan from the bottom, so that the top flange for concealing the pan is enabled to be made together with, and a part of, the ring, instead of being a separate part, as heretofore, which is also cheaper, and combines the two in one article.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An ornamental holder for baking-pans, consisting of a ring with a flange turned in-' ward within said ring, and from the top, or thereabout, and having fastenings adapted to catch and hold the pan, when inserted under said flange, said ring being-deeper than the pan to hold it above the table, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the pan A, having a flange, B, or other projections, and the ring 0, having the inwardly-projecting flange D, and fastenings E, adapted to catch and hold the pan up in the ring above the table, substantially as described.

HENRY O. MILLIGAN.

Witnesses:

F. A. THAYER, WM. J MORGAN. 

